English language: From Local to Global.

      Аннотация: In today’s modern world, the importance and use of English as the global language cannot be denied and ignored as English is the most common language spoken universally. It is the major window to the modern world. Our topic is extensively focused on the global influence of the language, including colonial, native, economic, and academic. The way it turned out to be one of the official languages in India and its effect on law, business, economics, science, social sciences, etc. have been discussed in detail in the later parts. The forms and varieties of the language across different countries of Europe, including history and evolution of the language keeping in mind the colonial aspect is also a part of our topic. The present status of English was not the same during the First World War and even before that, and how it turned out to be the language of day to day communication of approximately 1.5 billion people is discussed in detail.

Ключевые слова: lingua franca, colonialism, Post colonialism, British, EFL, ELT, World Wars, Statute of Pleading, Globalization, Multilingualism, Cold War, science, technology